Bradley and ASA officers met with the president's aides at places selected by the White House. As Truman told Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, there were "too many unknowns" in the partially ...

On March 22, Forrestal proposed an increase of $3 billion in additional military funds. The scare talk of Truman and Marshall happened to directly contradict incoming intelligence reports.

Airpower, air defense, Marines’ role—all need revisiting, three-quarters of a century after the seminal roles-and-missions ...

Defense Secretary Forrestal and Navy Secretary Sullivan had trooped to the White House to plead Radford’s case, Harry Truman had stubbornly put them off. One day last week, Denfeld went to see ...

As Truman told Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, there were "too many unknowns" in the partially decoded Soviet messages. "Even if part of this is true, it would open up the whole red panic ...